UNDERESTIMATING A GIANT
HUAYNA POTOSI
Huayna Potosi is ‘supposedly’ the easiest 6,000+m mountain in the world. I say supposedly because to us that statement carries as much weight as saying that New Zealand is the easiest country to swim to from Australia. It might be technically true, but it doesn’t mean it’s easy at all.
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TIPNIS
PART 1
We were invited to enter the Isiboro Secure Indigenous Territory and National Park (otherwise known as the TIPNIS) by an Indigenous leader. There are no roads into the park, the only form of transport is on small motorised canoes. This is one of the last remaining wild parts of the Amazon rainforest but its integrity and the lives of the Indigenous people are being threatened by development plans proposed by the government. It was a real privilege to be invited into place so rarely visited by westerners. This is the first part of our 10 day trip into the TIPNIS.
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City-itis
A DISEASE CURED BY NATURE
After a serious case of city-itis contracted from 3 weeks in Sucre the doctor prescribed a large dose of the outdoors. Not normally ones to seek the advice of medical professionals this was rare advice we actually followed. Over the course of two weeks we rode from the highlands of Sucre to the lowlands of Santa Cruz.
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The dumbest thing
SALAR DE UYUNI TO SUCRE
We had good intentions for Sucre, we really did. We were going to lay low and rest after a few months on the road while Lachie healed and we got some much needed Spanish lessons. The reality was somewhat different. Scott and I DJ’ed at the local party hostel and subsequently snagged ourselves volunteering jobs running their parties. We also found ourselves in the role of translators for hikes run by the hostel and got a gig photographing a proposal.
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